Turtle

Cars are exceedingly inefficient forms of transportation, especially in dense areas. We can do so much better if we just shift our priorities towards sustainable, efficient, socially responsible transportation and development. Public busses, trains, car-sharing clubs, human powered vehicles, electric bikes and other small vehicles, and truly mixed-use development around transit hubs, is the way to go.

I’m not really a big fan of more legislation and more laws, so I wouldn’t really want to have an all out ban on personal automobiles in the city, but better policies that promote mroe sustainable transportation are clearly needed. Tax incentives, a serious funding of public transit, and the elimination of the devastating zoning codes that actually prohibit mixed-use development are good places to start.

They are the number 1 killer of kids and younger adults. Going carfree, and choosing more sustainable, socially responsible, efficient, and environmentally respectful forms of transportation is the only hope for creating better communities.